Monday, November 4, 2013

PRINCE CHARMING CAN WAIT Blog Tour

EVER AFTER Series Spotlight:

No Knight Needed

Ever After, #1

Broad shoulders silhouetted in the
night. Strong arms anchoring her against a powerful chest. A modern-day knight
in shining armor on a stormy mountainside… Who has time for that kind of
fantasy? Not Clare Gray, that's for sure. The plucky single mom is a little too
busy to dream about turbulent dark eyes brimming with intensity, and sensual
kisses that ignite her soul. But when Boston business mogul Griffin Friese
steps out of his black truck on the abandoned mountain road and helps Clare
rescue her daughter from a deadly Maine storm, her well-ordered world implodes.

Suddenly, Clare finds herself having fantasies about tender loving and hot
passion with the mysterious stranger with the rain-slicked jacket and the angel
painted on the roof of his truck. The midnight encounter awakens yearnings in
Clare that are far too dangerous to explore, but when she learns that her
heroic knight is staying in town for a few days, he becomes a reality she can't
deny. She's already barely surviving, so how can she risk her heart with a man
who threatens everything she believes in?

Kisses that set her on fire. A
tender smile that melts her heart. Promises of forever…. It's the fairytale
that no woman can afford to believe in, especially not Astrid Munroe. Oh, she
did once, long ago, but the scars etched on her heart remind her that the only
one she can trust is herself. The flamboyant designer with the quick wit and
spunky demeanor will never show the world how much she is struggling…until she
meets Jason Sarantos, a man whose tormented past enables him to see the secrets
she is trying to hide.

The connection between the two
damaged souls is instant and electrifying, shredding the defenses Astrid had
worked so carefully to erect, and tumbling her into a world of passion and
vulnerability she can't control. Jason has moved to Maine to rebuild his life
after the tragic death of his wife and youngest son, and Astrid's vibrant
spirit ignites a searing fire in the single dad that he thought was long dead.
Intense, soul-shattering passion explodes between the pair, threatening
everything that they hold most dear. Is there a way to stop the fire
before it consumes them, or are they fated to a future more beautiful and more
heart-wrenching than either thought was possible?

He would never.
Driven to heroism he wants no credit for, ex-military Harlan Shea is a loner
with a single goal, a last respite from the life he has chosen to lead: not to
die the way his father did. And there is one way, one woman, who can help him
break that cycle.

She would never.
Still shadowed by a trauma she cannot forget, Emma Watson is damaged in ways
she will never reveal, not to anyone…except the dangerous, intense man who has
haunted her dreams for the last two years, a man she has barely spoken to, a
man who has come back into her life for forty-eight hours.

The best intentions…
A full moon. A dark sky. A whispered confession. A secret pact between two
almost strangers who will part ways in the morning, never to speak again. But
when these two combustuous, passionate souls finally come together…nothing will
ever be the same again. Is there any way to recover from what they have done,
or are they doomed to the very fate they were trying so desperately to escape?

Four-time RITA® Award nominee
and Golden Heart® Award winner Stephanie Rowe is the nationally bestselling
author of more than twenty published novels with major New York publishers,
including Warner/Grand Central, HarperCollins, Harlequin, Dorchester &
Sourcebooks. Stephanie has received starred reviews from Booklist and high
praise from Publisher's Weekly. Stephanie writes romance (paranormal,
contemporary and suspense), teen fiction, middle grade fiction and motivational
nonfiction, including her bestselling dark paranormal Order of the Blade series.